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An Old Man.
Lincoln Journal.

Il ncOIn Journal.
Taking about longevity, think my father
took the angel cake"
"A Methusaleh, was he2 How old was he2"
"Oh, 1 don't know his age, but he sent a poem
TO a monthly magazine in his youth and lived to
see IL nn hlishad.n
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Comfort for John.
New York Sun.


Twill you remember me, DEAR when I am
gonef" asked the sick man.
yes John" replied the stricken wife, land
i will see that your yrave is kept green, AID all
that"
will you marry againl'
81 can never love any one but you, John and
if / marry again he will have to have money!"
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What Graveled Him Most.
Puck

'Kicked you out, did he7" sympathized
friend with a walking delegate who had found
himself suddenly projected the side walk in
front of a manufacturing establishment.
Yes: but that wasn't the worst of it. ;"
.'No2'
'Wbat pains me most is the fact that the boot
he kicked me with wasn't union made"
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Ode to 5. Coy
ON HIS ADVENT INTO JOURNALISM

ON HIS ADVENT INTO JOURNALISM.
Into the journalistic field o Simeon,
We welcome thee. Doff hat. and bde with
Thus would we ever. from lofty heights.
Reach out the helping hand to wanderers.
Who from the narrow path have strayec, alas
And dallied in the baser calings OF
The world. To lawyers. politicians. trarnps,
To base ball artists. bankers real estate
And other brokers. tn ensanguined slugger,
And exc the aproned throng who mix tie juice
Of the rampant tarantula, and set
1t seething down before the thirsty mob;
To all we give our welcome. Come to us!
Come with lutte. Come and assist the band
Who shape the public morals. by living
Upright lives and writing current items,
Mixed with advice iudicious and few
Advertisements tat lowest rates for CASH.
The men that we have in these here jour-
Nalisms, the better off she are; that's our opinion
Hail thee sprgged with bay and proudly crowned
With fve-dollar Edenharter nat,
But rather tn defiant warrior bold
Who proudly but dis6gured leaves the ring.
Where he has been done. did and doed. to seek
A trainer for his next-tinns fight. To breathe.
To be sponged off. to stick the soothing steak
Upon the dexter eye; in arIlica
To lave the roasted ribs and swollen jaw
"Figgerstively. ez a Teller says
And then. in pointed wor is and sentences
Rotund. to lure the workin' classes" on,
And show them that true liberty consists
In ha ring whisky sold after eleven
p. Nj: and further, if one day in seven
TIL oppressed saloonist must close up his shop,
As other peope do our forefathers
Have foug ht and died in vain.
OF man. To-day he strikes railroad wreck
And has his eye knocked out. Tomorrow morn
He struts the street with vitreous optic,
Brighter than the old, and sues the bloated
Corporation for its last years earnings.
Honos habet onus. That Simeon.
Is Latin aud for our purposes doth mean
That thou hast reached a station where the world
Looks up to thee and hopes to see thee live
The virtuous, upright. inofensve life
OF distinguished journalist. The way
Is hard; but if. with patience stern and strong.
Thou follow it, diamonds sh all deck thy shirt;
The silks of Orient shall est
Thy frame: 1ninions shall blow at thy call,
NonpareiIs also, agates likewise; como,
On. shun temptation! And above all, when thou
Shalt figure up thy circulation. let not
The uncurbed instincts of the olden time
Ever induce thy hand to monkey with
The returns.
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HUMOROUS.
WHY He Was Afraid.

Strset-car Conductor ito countrymanl-'If
you saw him picking the gentleman's pocket.
why didn't you interfere, instead of letting him
get away2'
Countryman-"I saw that sign up there, Be
ware OF pickpockets.' an, b. gosh, I was fraid
to-
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Boston Transcript.
The edict has gone forth-two buttons on the
polished shirt front for fulldress occasions; four
buttons on the vest cravat fastened with invisible
pins those with diamonds pearls of fantastic
design being taboo 1t is stated whether napkin
win be held this season, when picks his teeth
with his fork.
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paper. Before they recover from their amaze
ment, and decide 20 accent the shame OF exoos-
ure to recover their money, the express company
has paid the boodler: his SAFE is carried to
another room; and he placidly lies In wait for
the next victim. Meanwhile the victims, smart
ing u1der their loss, determine at least to have
revenge on the more clever scoundrel who has
duped them. and apply to the United States
authorities II remains-on to say that the
authorities cannot help them in that way
The only answer they get is the following circu-
lar, which explains itself:
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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

INTELLIGENCE was received on the 18th
of the burning of the Ocean King, the
largest American ship afloat, while on
voyage between Nanaimo, B. c., and San
Pedro The crew escaped.
IT was reported on the 18th that large
number of Wesleyan missionaries had been
massacred by natives on the Tonga Islands,
in the South Pacific.
THE whaling bark Europe, owned at
New Bedford, Mass, had, it was reported
on the 18th, been wrecked off the Japan
coast the entire crew of thirty-two per-
ishing.
THE Dominion Government it was sta ted
on the 14th Was about to engage In the
construction OF an extensive system of
coast defenses.
The American ship Charles FL. Marshall,
with a crew of twenty-three men, which
left London December for Philadelphia,
was on the 18th given up for lost.
CIRCULARS were being sent out on the 14th
by the holders OF Confederate bonds in
England in which they express the belief
that the bonds will be redeemed by the
United States.
THE British Government received intelli.
gence on the 10Th from the Financial Sec
rotary of India of the discovery of treas
ure estimated at $25 900, 600 which had been
secret ed by an East Indian Prince.
THE ten thousand coal-miners in the
province of Hainault, Belgium, struck on
the 10th.
AFTER numbering her three children on
the 10th the wife of Berlin stone cutter
named Rehlendorf committed suicide
SIXTEEN persons were, it was reported
on the 10th, killed by the recent earthquake
in Mexico. Many persons were still living
under trees and panic exis ted everywhere.
A wide extent of territory was scanned
with crevlces and immense chasms The
earth had sunk in many places, and was
flooded with water making swamps where
water never existed before.
r. NELSON BOYD, civil engineer, stated
on the 10th that twelve years time would
be consumed in finishing the work under
taken by Count De Lesseps on the Pana-
ma canal, and that it would cost 5000,
900, 000
In consequence of the failure of the fish
cries and hay crop last season hundreds
of Icelanders were, it was stated on the
10th, arranging to emigrate to the United
States.
WILLIAM O'BRIEN editor of United Ire
land, and now in Canada, was elected to
Parliament for the Northwest division Of
Cork on the 10th
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were consumed; the loss was ABOUT $780,
000
BLUE SPRINGS, Wymore, Crete, O'Nein
and Papillion, in Nebraska were on the
18th swept by cyclone and houses were
wrecked and much other damage done.
Three persons were killed.
AN aged lady named Mrs Ellen Gold
smith living near Montgomery Mimi, was
burned to death on the 18th in brush fire
IL sermon at st. Paul on the 18th Bishop
Ireland, who has just returned from Rome,
said that the church had neither approved
nor condemned the Knights Of Labor 1t
recognized the right Of every workman to
strike, but not to force others to stop
work
THE death of Miss Mary Harden, the
fancee Of John Howard Payne and the
lady for whom he wrote his Home,
Sweet Home,n occurred in Athens, Ga.
on he 14th at the age of seventy eight
years.
THE laying of the cornerstone of the
Stanford University at Menlo Park, Cal,
took place on the 18th.
SEVERAL persons were struck by light.
ming two of whom were killed, during
thunderstorm at st. Louis on the 18th
THE first annual encampment of the
Sons of Veterans OF Indiana was opened
on the 18th at Richmond
GEORGE E. REED city treasurer of Bis
marck, D. T., disappeared on the 10th
leaving his accounts $1,000 short.
EARLY on the morning of the 10th about
thirty houses in the Chinese quarter of
Fresno, Cal, were burned.
SWAN BROTHERS, dealers in live stock at
Cheyenne, Wy. T., made an assignment
on the 10Th with liabilities of 500, 600
Rev. JAMES A. SIDDAL, of Kirkland, one
of the most prominent preachers in the
ortheast@Methodist Conference Of Indi-
ana, was adjudged insane on the 10th.
TIE death of Hon. E. c. Phlster, men,
Der of Congress from 1878 to 1882 occurred
at his home III Maysville, KY, on the
10Th, at the age of sixty-fve years.
AN organization was being effected by
oil producers in the Lima TO- fields on the
10Th against the Standard Company and
an exchange it was thought would be
formed.
WHILE bathing, Leonard and William
Mercillus, brothers, residing near Harris
burg, O., were drowned ON the 10TH
REPORTS from various points throughout
Manitoba on the 10th show serious losses
to settlers by prairie fires and heavy wind
storms.
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THE NEWS.
Compiled from Late Dispatches
FROM WASHINGTON.

DURING April the value of exports of
breadstuffs aggregated $12, 81, 439, against
s1l, 959, 94S in April, 1856,
A BRONZE statue 20 the memory of Pres
ident Garfield was unvailed on the 18th at
the foot of Capitol hill in Washington by
the Society Of the Army of the Cumber-
land, of which he was one Of the founders.
General Sheridan was re- elected pres dent
of the society.
THE business failures occurring through
out the United States during the seven
days ended on the 18th numbered 135,
against 1913 the previous seven days.
THE exchanges at twenty-six leadin 2
clearing houses in the United States dur
ing the week ended on the 18th aggregated
1901, $40, 1853, against 81, 125, 075 O57 the pre-
vlous week. AS compared with the CORE
spending week of 1886, the increase amounts
to 23.6 per cent
THE available surplus IN the United
States Treasury on the 14th was $40, 000,-
900, an increase of about $4,000 900 since
the 1st inst
WILLIAM B. WOODS, Associate Justice of
the United States Supreme Court, died at
Washington on the 18th. He was a soldier
of distinction in the late war, and had been
on the Supreme bench since 1880. He was
born in Newark. o.
SECRETARY WHITNEY, at the request of
the Japanese Government, on the 10Th
ordered the admission into the Naval
Academy of H. Mic, a japanese youth of
noble family, aged seventeen years.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY MAYNARD decided
on the 10th that it is in violation of the
law against importing labor under contract
to employ Canadians to work on this side
of the border.
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LATER.

WILLIAM O. BRIEN editc9 of United Ire
land, spoke at Toronto, Can, on the 18th
concerning the manner in which Lord
LansdoWne treated his Irish tenants. Dur
ing the speech the platform was stoned by
Orangemen, and several fights occurred.
EUGENE G. RACE, a we'll known restau-
rateur, and Shader & Chandler, wholesale
jewelers., failed in Chicago on the 18th.
FORTY manufacturing establishments at
Haverhill, Mass, closed their doors on the
18th, throwing three thousand persons out
of employment
FIVE men who were cons picuous in the
recent plot to assassinate the Car were
executed at St Petersburg on the 18th.
JOHN FITZGERALD, as president of the
Irish National League Of America, on the
18th sent q cable message TO Mr.. Glad
stone cordially inviting him to visit this
country during the coming summer.
DURING the month of April twenty-one
daily newspapers were established in Kan
sas.
JAMES NJ. HOWARD, an attorney, of VAL
paraiso, Ind, was found murdered in
Chicago lumber-yard on the 18th. Rob-
berry was the supposed cause of the crime.
LIGHTNING on the 18th killed John
Reachall near Smithland Island, O. Mrs.
John Marks, at st. Joseph, Mo-, and A S.
Potter, at O'Neill, Neb.
COLONEL FRED D. GRANT was on the 18th
nominated by Governor Hill for quarantine
commissioner at New York City.
Mr.. MITCHELL, United States Consul at
Kingston, Can, in letter to the Depart
ment of State at Washington claims that
under the Interstate Commerce law
freights have been increased from twenty
five to ore hundred per cent on lines doing
business into Canada, and that the result
has been demoralizing to American trade
CRoP news from the West and North
west was favorable on the 18th, as rule,
rains having fallen upon large areas that
were in need of moisture.
REPORTS of the 18th from Lewis town
ship, Scott County, Ark, say q gold-mine
has been discovered on the farm of w. H
Dickson.
THE forest fires in Michigan and Wiscon
sin were extinguished on the nth by rain.
Large tracts of land have been burned
over, causing heavy losses
A BUCHAREST telegram of the nth says
Roumania was fortifying rapidly under the
supervision of German officers.
PLATT, the sporting book maker, of New
York, decamped on the 17th, leaving thou
sands of dollars of unpaid wagers.
A STATE Prohibition club was organized
al Lansing, Mich, on the 18th. Hon. C. S.
May, of Kalamazoo, was chosen president
ALL the members of the French Cabinet
resigned on the nth
Mr.. ANDREW CARNEGIE, of Pittsburgh,
the millionaire manufacturer and literator,
has written a letter declining to particle
pate in or assist the proposed celebration
of the Queens jubilee in New York. on the
grounds that he is ''an American citizen,
who rejects the monarchical idea as incon-
sistent with and insulting to his manhood
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WEST AND COIIrLY

FOREST fires in Northern Wisconsin and
the Upper Michigan Peninsula were PROV
ing very destructive on the 18th.
EUREKA, Rhonerville, and San Buena
Ventura, Cal, were slightly shaken by an
earthquake on the 18th.
A PROHIBITION convention will be held
at New Orleans June / by the colored PEG.
pie of Louisiana.
JAMES JONES (colored) who killed Cate
Hicks last August, was hanged on the 18th
at Texarkana, Ark
AT the Ballard we'll, southeast of Find
lay, O., gasser was drilled into on the
18th with capacity of 10000, 600 cubic feet
daily, the largest in the world.
THREE SPRINGS, Neb., was swept by q
cyclone on the 18th, and houses were lev
eled and two persons were killed.
PROF. e. e. BARNARD, of Vanderbilt OBJ
serYatory, at Nashville, Tenn, discovered
another comet on the 18th, this making his
third discovered this year.
AT Nogales, A. T., five shocks of earth
quake were felt on the 18th.
THERE was over ten thousand building
laborers out of employment in Chicago on
the 18th in consequence of the lock- out of
the master masonS, and the army was
being daily added to. The brick-makers
and other material men had agreed to
stand by the contractors and sell nothing
during the trouble.
IN the counties of southampton, Isle of
Wight and Surry, in Virginia, destructive
floods prevailed on the 18th. Eight mills
had been washed away by floods, and the
corn and peanut crops in each of the above
counties had been ruined.
THOMAS KENYON, aged ninety-nine years,
being the oldest man IN the State, died at
his home near Mount Olivet KY, on the
18th
AN lncendiary fire on the 18th destroyed
the extensive shops of the Minneapolis g.
St Louis railroad at Minneapolis, causing
a loss of $3.50, 000
TIE forest fires in Northern Michigan
were said on the 18th to still rage, and
large tracts of valuable timber land were
being burned over. Much farming land
had also been swept ever by the flames,
and the farmers were respondent
JAMES PoRTER's house near Harrington,
Del, was entered by masked men early
on the morning of the 18th and, after a
desperate struggle with Porter and his
wife, they secured over 50, 1903.
PETER FoRD, of Wilmington, Del, an ex-
tensive real-estate man, contractor and
builder failed on the 18th with liabilities of
100000.
A LIGHT shock of earthquake was felt
on the 18th at Summerville, S. c., and a
slight rumbling occurred at Charleston
The baseball clubs in the National
League at the close of the week ended on
the 14th stood as follows: Detroit (games
won), ID; Boston, 9; Philadelphia, s.; New
York, Z; Pittsburgh, 6; Chicago, 5; Wash
ington, 8; Indianapolis, 3.
IN South Carolina passenger train was
stopped on the 14th by the myriads of cat
erpillars on the tracks.
In the vicinity of ST. Paul skeleton
was found on the 14th and near bv it
bag con tanning $1,000 in greenbacks and
coin.
THE Northern Indiana editorial frater-
nifty will hold their twenty-fourth annual
meeting at Warsaw June 8 and 10.
A DISASTROUS fire swept Hammond, Ind,
on the 14th. A distillery, butterine
factory, iumberyards and other property
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A GREAT GATHERING.
for the International Sum
day-School Convention to Be Held in
Chicapn-Rntes of TRANSFORMATION.

Preparations for the International SUM-
day-schooI Convention to Be Held in
Chicago-Rates of transportation.
CHICAGO, May 17-Extensive prepare
tons are being made for the great Inter-
national Sunday School conveDt ton which
meets in this city on the night of the 3lst
and continues June l, 2, 8 and 4.
Battery D has been engaged and will have
chairs to accommodate 600 persons soon
in place. Nearly all OF the railroads in the
United States have made arrangements to
return at one-third fare all who pay full
fare to the convention. The Grand Trunk
and Intercolonial railroads of Canada will
sell round trip ticket good until July ID.
Special arrangements have been made for
an excursion from New England at a fixed
rate of thirty dollars from Boston to Chi
cago and return starting via the Hoosac
Tunnel, and giving the choice to return
via the other routes. There will also be an
excurs ion train from New York, Philadel-
phia and Baltimore via the Baltimore q
Ohio with a round trip rate of twenty dol
lars to twenty dollars and seVenty-fve
cents; all lines within the State of Illinois
will return those paying full fare to the con-
yention at one-third rate. In all cases per-
sons wishing to avail themselves of reduced
rates must receive from Mr.. B. f. Jacobs,
chairman of the Executive Committee No.
90 Washington street, certificates, which
will be furnished on application. The full
certificates, emitting the holders to hos
pitality and admission to the delegate
seats in the convention are only granted to
delegates appointed by the various State,
Territorial or Provincial organizations,
but all who desire to attend may have the
certificates for reduced fare on applica-
tion.
The prospects are that the attendance
will be very large. Seventeen names are
already reported from the Province of
New Brunswick, and intelligence from the
East state that there is considerable en-
thusiasm over the excursion trains.
Michigan has applied for the full quota Of
fifty-two delegates and fifty-two alter
mates; Iowa sends for one hundred; Kan
sas and Missouri announce that their
quota will be full. At the Illinois State
Sunday School convention Friday eighty
eight delegates and lightweight alternates
were appoin ted. In order to accommodate
those desiring to attend outside of Chica-
go, reserved seats will be sold to others
than regular delegates. Many applica-
lions have already been received for these
ia
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THE EAST.

YONG YEN CHANG, the only Chinese
lawyer in the United States, appeared as
counsel in a case in the Supreme Court dt
Brooklyn, N. Y, ON the 18th.
A LOSS Of $4,000 was caused by the
burning of the iron works at Paterson, N.
j., on the 18th.
FOREST fires were causing great destruc-
ton on the 18th near Sandwich. Mass,
thousands of acres having been burned
over
Mrs. MCCooK, living at Coal Valley, Pa,
in kindling fire on the 18th used petro-
leum. The house was destroyed, the wom-
an and her two children perishing in the
flames.
1T is stated in the weekly trade review
issued on the 18th by a New York firm
that great revolution in business Is 90
ing on which is attributed mostly to the
operations of the Interstate Commerce
act. 1t appears that the smaller towns
generally are being benefited by the law,
while the great centers are suffering.
NINE. PATTI sangiA New YorlxsCity on
the evening of the 18th, thus closing her
farewell tour in America.
NEAR Bourne, Mass, fire on the 18th
had burned over nearly fifty thousand
acres, and was still burning
THE house of John B. Fassett was burned
at Moretown, VT, on the 18th, and he and
his wife, both aged sixty, persisted in the
flames.
FLAMES consumed the steamer Empire
State at Bristol, R. l., on the 14th, causing
"a loss of $4,000
THE knit-goods workers. strike at
Amsterdam, N. Y, which was begun
seven months ago was on the 14th de-
clared off, the men returning to work at
the old scale OF prices.
In New York City on the 18th all the sa-
looms, including the bars at the principal
hotels, were closed and the Sunday law
was also enforced in other branches of
trade.
HIRAM B. and Charles w. Everest, father
and son, millionaire mem bers of the Stand
ard Oil Company, were convicted by a jury
at Buffalo, N. Y, on the 14th OF conspiring to
ruin business rival. The penalty is i'm
prisonment for one year, a fine of $500, or
both.
THE death of Mrs. Catharine Rood, of
Essex, VT, occurred on the 18th, aged
one hundred and three years and seven
months.
ARCHBISHOP CoRRIGAN in GA sermon at
lie Church opposed the fallacy that own
ership in land was unjust, and stated Ethat
every man had right to acquire by hon
est means, as much property as he c:uld.
IN various portions of Worcester County,
Mass, forest fires were burning on the
10th, and doing great damage
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Eurone,s PEACE.

LONDON. May 13.-f the news from
Vienna this morning is to be credited, the
peace of Europe is in greater peril now
than at any time in many months The
Vienna report IS to the effect that TAO, 600
Austrian soldiers are in Dalmatia
prepared for campaign, and that
the Montenegrin army is also ready for
action. A collision at this juncture be-
tween Austria and Montenegro would be
almost certain to precipitate general
war. 1t is very probable, however, that
the report is unfounded, or at least grossly
exaggerated. The recent cables have
given no intimation of impending hostil-
tiles in this quarter, and it will not do for
spectators to bet very heavily on war on
the strength of the Vienna dispatch.
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sharn.s Tell Rerins.

New YORK, May H. Jacob Sharp, mil
lionaire and alleged member of the famous
New York Combine" was placed on trial
yesterday in Judge Barrett's court.
[Sharp is under twenty-one indictments for
bribery, the one under which he is now being
tried accusing him and several others Of offer
ing Rudolph A. Fullgraff. member Of the
Common Council, $4,000 to vote in favor of the
B oadway railroad franchise. Ex-Aldermen
Jaehne, O'NeilI and Cleary, three of the men
found guilty OF accepting brides from Sharp,
are now in Sing Sing, nine others are under in
dictment, one is insane, two are dead, and four
are fugitiVes from justieel
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Trea,ure rrove Confiscated in India.

LONDON, May 1.-THE Financial Secre-
tary Of India has advised the Government
of the discovery under the vaults of the
Palace of Gwalior of treasure amounting
to e., 100000, which was secreted by the
late Maharajah of the State of Gwalior
The Indian Government has taken possess
sion of the treasure as a loan from the
present Maharajah, much to the indigna-
ton Of the native press, which character
ICES the action of the Government as rob-
berry. The question will be brought be-
fore Parliament, which body alone has
power to judge the ownership and DISPOSE
ton of the treasure finally,